Sunday, February 3, 2013

Midlothian
– A team of police officers nearly surrounded Eddie Routh, the
25-year-old Marine Corporal who is charged with the capital murder of
Chief Chris Kyle and Chat Littlefield, as he pulled into his driveway
in a truck he stole from one of the two victims following the
shooting.

Chad Littlefield

The
pair took him shooting at Rough Creek Resort and Conference Center in
an effort to ease his suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,
lawmen and news reporters learned from a neighbor, after his mother
Jodi Leigh Routh reached out to Chief Kyle for help.

Eddie Routh, former Marine Corporal

A
visitor to the gun range found their lifeless bodies about 5:30 p.m.

The
sprawling 11,000-acre complex is located about 5 miles west of Glen
Rose, and is the site of numerous gun sporting events to benefit
wounded veterans.

Chief
Kyle, president and founder of the tactical weapons training
organization Craft International, also operated a charitble
foundation to benefit wounded warriors named FITCO. Reached for
comment, an anonymous spokesman for the resort complex said, “I
think it was just a private thing, just the three of them getting
together to do some shooting.”

Chief
Kyle and Mr. Littlefield, 35, were fellow soccer parents and neighbors. The highly decorated SEAL had been decorated with the Silver Star, numerous Bronze Stars and Navy and Marine Corps Commendations.

As
the desperate accused killer pulled into the driveway of his mother's
home at Midlothian, none of the officers who surrounded the large
4-wheel drive F-150 Ford covered in Rhino armor and emblazoned with
the Craft corporate logo made a move to detain him. A female officer
armed with a shotgun made no attempt to put him in detention.

They
speculated that a semiautomatic handgun they found at the house may
have been the murder weapon used to shoot his victims.

Lawmen
later apprehended him at about 9 p.m. near his home in Lancaster when
they placed spike strips across the road to flatten the truck's
tires. A magistrate set his bond at $3 million following his
arraignment for two counts of capital murder.